Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

Simon Valiquette
2004-12-09T22:35:08Z

Ray Olszewski a écrit :
>
> So you want an uploaded file to be mode 777, writable (and executable,
> if you really mean 777, not 666) by any user on the system? OK. Change
> the account's umask, in ./.profile, or ./.bashrc, or whatever
> user-specific file is appropriate to your setup.

I would also had done something likes that. Then, if you want those
users to be _forced_ to put all their files world readable, I don't know
how to do it. The closest I know is with a cron that change back the
permissions with chmod every 5 minutes or a script runned at logout time
(maybe scp also execute .logout).

>
> Since the relevant command is "chmod", not "Chmod" (case counts in
> Linux/Unix commands), I'm surprised you hit *anything* with the command
> as written.

It surelly really was chmod. Typo, or Outlook that automatically
fixed the case (I remember seeing things likes that many years ago when
I was still using Windows).

> chmod -R 777 ./*
>
> (Even this will not chmod **all** files, because because by convention
> almost all Linux/Unix commands treat files that begin with a dot
> character as special, so standard wildcards (*) will not match them. So
> this command will chmod files with names like filename and filename.txt,
> but not one with names like .filename . I don't know a general way to
> include such files.)
>

chmod -R 777 .

Note the "." at the end. That will do it for the current directory,
and all files/directories that start from the inode represented by "."

Simon Valiquette